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Where to start with: Zadie Smith

Not sure whether to read or revisit White Teeth, or go for one of the celebrated author’s other works? Novelist Yara Rodrigues Fowler who was “raised” on Smith has a handy guide.

read on…

‘Er is een oorlog tussen regeringen en hun burgers gaande’

Interview: Zadie Smith op haar best

door Nadia Ezzeroili

Zadie Smith, gekleed in grijs broekpak, haren los, gouden kettinkje met de letter Z om haar hals, ploft vermoeid neer op de bank in de bibliotheek van het Ambassade Hotel in Amsterdam. read on…

Zadie Smith about her mother, father and White Teeth

 

Best-selling British author Zadie Smith wasn’t in the news because she wrote a new book, but because she claimed her childhood home was brimful of books – but most had been borrowed from a local library by her mother and not returned.

“I didn’t steal books from library, says mother of Zadie Smith,” wrote the Daily mail.

Her mother Yvonne Bailey-Smith, 56, agreed that her home had been full of books but insisted she bought most of them herself, spending up to £80 a time at local bookshops.

Further reading, click here on Afro-Europe blog

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